As part of a security presentation given at this year’s Black Hat conference, Apple today announced that it would be starting up a bug bounty program in the fall. The program will reward security researchers who uncover vulnerabilities in Apple’s products and bring them to the company’s attention. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and many other companies have offered bug bounty programs for some time now, but this is Apple’s first.
For now, Apple is intentionally keeping the scope of the program small. It will initially be accepting bug reports from a small group of a few dozen security researchers it has worked with in the past.
